Israel uber
alles
ABCD
Washington
- It did not take the Israel Lobby long to make mincemeat out of the Obama administration’s
no new settlements position. In May
2009, President Obama told the Israeli government that he was serious about ending the Israeli conflict with the Palestinians and that a lasting peace agreement required the Israeli government to abandon all construction of new settlements in the occupied West Bank.
On November 10, Obama’s White House chief of staff, Rahm Israel Emanuel, surrendered for his boss at the annual conference of the United Jewish Communities.
The ongoing Israeli settlements, he said, should not be a
distraction to a peace agreement. Does it need
further confirmation who of both, Israel and the US, is the superpower and
who is its client state?
A few days ago, the US House of Representatives
voted 344 to 36 in favor of disavowing the UN report
finding that Israel had committed war crimes in its
attack on the civilian population in the Gaza
Ghetto. The Israel Lobby demanded that the House
repudiate the fact-filled report, and the servile
House did as its master ordered. US Rep. Dennis
Kucinich (photo) spoke to his colleagues for 2
minutes in an effort to make them see that their
vote against the report would be a great
embarrassment in the eyes of the world. Retribution quickly fell upon Kucinich: On November 9,
he was forced to withdraw as the keynote speaker for the Palm Beach County (Florida) Democratic Party’s annual fundraising
dinner. The Israel Lobby gave the order: dump Kucinich or there’s no money and no one is coming to the
dinner.
